Hints and tips:
...The eminent cast includes Renée Flemming, Kelli O’Hara and Joyce DiDonato....
...Bass Kevin Burdette, not always sounding comfortable, dips into Camelot for “If Ever I Would Leave You” and Morris Robinson grandly invokes “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha....
...When the rust got too much, inspired by the opening credits on Antiques Roadshow I hooked up with a convertible 1962 Morris Minor, which looked adorable but felt like a tin can to drive....
...And Louis Langrée is heralded as Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director. So much for the charitable joys of conspicuous sponsorship. Lincoln Center...
...Renée Fleming takes the role of the titular Saracen sorceress who enthrals Christian soldiers in her island prison during the Crusades....
...The cast enlists promising paragons: Dmitri Hvorostovsky as the titular cad, Renée Fleming as his would-be love, Ramón Vargas as his lovelorn victim. These three appreciate poetry as much as power....
...Rustiest seniors: James Morris as the Flying Dutchman, Samuel Ramey as Mephisto, Kiri te Kanawa racing the conductor in “Mariettas Lied”....
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